In the month that I've been here, I've been noticing a pattern in a lot of launches - strong demos, polished UI, clear outputs of "what it does."
But when I ask myself "What problem does this solve?" I sometimes have to dig for the answer. (I come by that thinking honestly - I've spent 33 years building and fixing businesses, so this is the lens I can't turn off.)
Human in the loop: Those who like to control the behavior of their agents as it works, looking at the context usage, reading reasoning blocks, and approving individual file edits.
Agent first: Those who prefer to review the output of agents, rather than individual actions, and run one or more sessions in parallel.
What type of developer are you when working with AI coding agents?
